Sunday, April 3, 2011

How to Motivate your Employees

The business success comes from a team of motivated, hard/smart working employees – in any small and medium size company. In a seminar, I attended few years ago – I noted few valuable points about this topic, and I would like to share them here.

Creating a Positive Environment – Every employee should feel worthwhile and important. Such office environment gives a positive energy to employees, and it makes a productive office. The manager’s office door should be always open for staffs – their questions and concerns.

Career oriented growth – The manager should help the employees to reach to the next level professionally by providing on-site coaching – through their day to day works. There is professional one-to-one counseling available, which can help people learn how to overcome personal and professional obstacles on their career path.

Acknowledge every contributions – A manager can make a very big difference in employee morale simply by taking the time to recognize the contributions and accomplishments of every members in team.

Incentives – Offering incentives to members for best performance is a good practice. It can be something small like a gift certificate, or something more such as performance based bonus. “Employee of the Month”, “Star Performer” kind of treats will help a lot in motivating employees.

In my experiences, I crossed many success stories in my team – of course by implementing the above mentioned ideas.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The New Manager’s Handbook

The New Manager’s Handbook [24 Lessons for Mastering your new role] by Morey Stettner is a small, but an excellent guide for Professional education. There are 24 quick chapters with great practical examples and simple ‘How to handle’ steps for success. I received this book as a gift from one my managers, when I accepted my promotion in his team. I am getting some good time now days to read all these, once again.

Android Development Guide

In one of my recent discussions with mobile application developers community [online], I found that most of them are following the Development guide http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html.

This online guide is really useful for the beginners and intermediate level programmers – because it gives an excellent introduction and examples on basics, framework, development concepts, best practices, and deployment trouble shooting management.

User Interface, Data Storage, Security, Bluetooth are well explained with appropriate examples. This site also contains a blog for latest updates, SDK Downloads, and Videos of popular Demos and Discussions. There are many articles and tutorials available for beginners and even for advanced programmers.